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Swampberry t1_j1pmife wrote

Reply to comment by acesilver1 in 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization discovered in the north of Guatemala by HRJafael

>There are some indigenous groups from Latin America that have functionally gone extinct either through excess intermixing with the colonizers who came to their land

You're kinda making it sound like those people claiming immigration leads to genocide simply by people becoming "excessively mixed".

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acesilver1 t1_j1pw339 wrote

What the Europeans did to indigenous American groups during the age of colonization was, in essence, genocide. Stealing land, toppling civilizations, conquest through guns and disease, forced conversions, mass killings… it was not simply “immigration” lol

And yes, intermixing between oppressive colonizing cultures and native cultures tends to lead to the erasure of native cultures.

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